Running video games (and consoles) thread

Also the original Ninja Gaiden.

"Whoever programmed this thing, I want to rip their fucking heart out of their ass so they can see how cold and black it is before they die!"

 

actually had success with the original Ninja Gaiden. Yes it was damn tough but I didn't mind the difficulty

 

Proud to say I've watched all 102 of those episodes. I love James.

 

heh, I'm with you - I love me some Angry Video Game Nerd. Especially when he plays the random, really bad games, like the CD-i Zelda and Mario games, and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

 

I actually really enjoyed the last episode that was just about the "making of." Even with a decent editing background, I found it cool to compare how I thought he did it to how he actually does.

I think the Mother F**ker Mike's video game glitches could be a better segment if he was more entertaining.

 

I'm only missing the trophy for full negative Karma, the trophy for completing the assassination side missions and completing 25 user-generated missions. I flew through the evil-portion of the game on hard and didn't spend a lot of time building my karma so once I go through those side missions, it should be fairly quick and I just hate most UGC missions so I've been avoiding doing that one.

And to answer your question, the highest point is the very tip-top of the ice tower in Gas Works.

 

Broke a controller and my NES over the course of a month trying to cklear that game. Ended up having to jam a book into my NES to keep games clicked down after one particularly frustrating endeavor.

Clearing Ninja Gaiden, with the legendary level (5-3? 6-3?) that was designed to kill you with every step, and a final room with three enemies that required three different weapons to kill (and thus necessitated dying after each one, then having to go back through all four of the previous levels to get the right weapon) . . . that was an accomplishment. I downloaded the game for Wii, and resigned myself to never clearing it again.

The Mega Mans of the world had their share of jumps that made you angle the controller while your character was in midair (and yes, the "dunhduhnduhnduhnduhnd- duhntdunt" death music in Rygar was a pisser). But NG was responsible for the death of my NES.

Stephens: On Midway Arcade Treasures for PS2, there's a feature on Defender, where the developer basically says the point was to make gamers survive only 30 seconds, so they'd have to keep pumping in quarters.

 

Jackass. Smart. But jackass.

 

What made Rygar so god damned frustrating was that you couldn't save! You died, you started at the beginning.

 

Just banged out the little bit I had left in Infamous 2 and racked up the Platinum trophy.

Been a while since I've gotten a Platinum--I now have four total--but, man, it never gets old.

 

My landlord (he lives downstairs, I have the upstairs apartment) said he can always tell when I'm playing NCAA because he'll hear the early strains of Enter Sandman, followed soon by a string of expletives that would make a hardened sailor blush. I've learned to not throw controllers, but I tend to snap at my video-game offensive linemen quite often. I need help.

 

The hyperspace button on Defender was a fool's paradise. Hit that and its even odds to hyperspace into an asteroid or something.

How do I know this? Er, uh, between the time I was banging one nubile hottie after another back in the 80s, I needed an outlet to escape my atavistic sexual charisma for a few hours and rest my cock for a scosh. It dawned on me that hot chicks don't congregate in arcades, so I'd pop a few quarters into Defender, Centipede, Zaxxon, etc.

I never played Kangaroo or Punch-Out because I am a strong advocate against donkey-punching and I wouldn't want someone to get the wrong idea.

Later in the 80s, I'd always get back in the mood by playing Paperboy, because it got me ready to put it back in someone's box.

But the arcade was my only refuge from the relentless carnal obsession the other sex had with me.